In re Grand Jury 05-02 & 07-103: Filing 004

Case 9:25-mc-80920-RLR Document 4 Entered on FLSD Docket 07/23/2025 Page 1 of 12 IN RE: Grand Jury 05-02 (WPB) & 07-103 (WPB) UNITED ST ATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA I ---------- FILED BY ,,.,/4 C o.c. // JUL 2 3 2025 ANGELA E. NOBLE CLERK U.S. 01ST. CT. S.D. OF FLA. - W.P.B. ORDER DENYING PETITION TO UNSEAL GRAND JURY TRANSCRIPTS The matter before the Court is the United States' request to unseal grand jury transcripts stemming from the Government's investigation into Mr. Jeffrey Epstein in the Southern District of Florida. For the reasons set forth below, Eleventh Circuit law does not permit this Court to grant the Government's request; the Court's hands are tied-a point that the Government concedes. The Government initiated the matter before the Court by filing the United States' Petition to Unseal Grand Jury Transcripts on July 18, 2025, and the Government's Response to the Court's Order on Supplemental Briefing (hereinafter "Supp. Br.") on July 20, 2025 (together, the "Petition"). Pursuant to Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 6, the Government requests that the transcripts related to grand jury investigations 05-02 (WPB) and 07-103 (WPB) (the "Florida Federal Grand Jury Proceedings") be unsealed "subject to appropriate redactions of victim-related and other personal identifying information." Pet. at I. Additionally, the Government states that "[t]o the extent this Court maintains that this 'petition to disclose arises out of a judicial proceeding in another district' ... the Court should 'transfer the petition to"' the Southern District of New York. Id. at 4-5 (referencing other petitions filed in United States v. Maxwell, No. 1 :20-CR-330 (S.D.N.Y.) and United States v. Epstein, No. 1: 19-490 (S.D.N.Y.)) (the "New York Federal Proceedings"). Case 9:25-mc-80920-RLR Document 4 Entered on FLSD Docket 07/23/2025 Page 2 of 12 I. BACKGROUND The Government's Petition seeks to unseal transcripts from the